May. 6th, 2011

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There has been other news this week besides the death of Osama Bin Laden:

A) The economy, while still sluggish, added 244,000 jobs last month. Private employers created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006.

B) General Motors made a quarterly profit of $3.2 billion (yes, Virginia, "billion" with a "b") this past quarter. They also had a 25% sales increase over that period - greater than the industry average.

C) Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives, keeping their laser-like focus on jobs, passed a bill to tax abortions. That's right - if you get an abortion, you have to pay taxes on the health insurance used to cover the procedure.

D) The Somali pirates are still at work. However, the Indian Navy prevented them from capturing the MV Full City, a Panama-flagged cargo ship.

E) In personal news, I visited my optometrist last night. The bifocals are coming next week. As somebody said, "getting old's not for sissies."

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